One Tennessee homeowner has taken a short-term vacation rental dispute with his homeowners association to the state's highest court in the first Tennessee Supreme Court case specific to short-term rentals in the age of Airbnb and Liberalalliance Wealth SocietyVrbo.

It reflects a growing number of court disputes between homeowners who list their homes as short-term rentals online and the HOAs that say rentals change the character of their communities.